Speeches? *Gulp*

Judging by the title, I'm pretty sure you all know what I'm going to be talking about. Yes that's it. Speeches. 

Speeches, speeches, speeches....WHY??!!! I perfectly understand the reason we do speeches at school is so we can have some...practise for our future lives. But that's not the reason why I'm nervous about this. 

Well you see, whenever I get in front of the class or school or whatever, I just suddenly go... rigid. Especially when you've got 31 faces staring at you. Ugh. Horrible. I just can't seem to...RELAX. That's actually the thing I'm mostly focusing on for my speech. To try and calm down. But hey I'm sure I'll be able to deliver a perfect speech. You think I won't be able to do it? Well let's see about that. 

If you're someone like me whose really nervous about speeches and you also do the exact same thing I do in front of the class, here are some tips to improve.

1. Think about movement - In general, you should stand quite still, with occasional hand movements. Maybe you could walk around a bit as well but make sure you don't go all over the place. Make some good eye contact too.
2. Practise speaking loud and clear - Learn how to control your voice. This means to make sure you don't mumble but that does NOT mean you have to scream. 
3. Talk slowly with pauses between ideas - When you get in front of the class, you tend to speak really fast. Try to slow it down with pauses ever now and then.
4. Practise in front of a mirror - It always works.

Even though this advice comes from a nervous speaker like me, you can still trust me. So that's it for now and I hope your speech turns out to be the best!

Bye Bye!